Tradition In Action.org Exposed Beliefs, Heresies and Practices

Tradition in Action claims to be a traditional
website "committed to defend the perennial Magisterium of Holy Mother
Church and Catholic traditions" against the Vatican II Conciliar Church.

Tradition In Action Contradictions, Lies and Beliefs

Tradition In Action (www.traditioninaction.org) is a
self-professed non-sedevacantist organization, meaning that they believe the
Vatican II claimants are valid Popes. They also believe that sedevacantism is a
"fundamental error" and claim sedevacantists believe "a Pope can
do no wrong":

Dan O'Connell, writing for
Tradition In Action on Sede-Vacantism?, Sept. 17, 2008: “First of all,
what is sede-vacantism? As I understand it, the sede-vacantist is a Catholic who
believes in all the rights and authority of the Papacy but does not believe
that the man currently holding the title of Pope, His Holiness Benedict XVI,
is really the Pope; he is fundamentally someone posing as the Pope, an
impostor, although the rest of the world accepts the man as the Pope. Hence
the Latin term sede-vacante, “the chair (of Peter) is vacant.” (...)

There is also a similarity
between the sede-vacantist and what I'll call the Novus Ordo Conservative
(NOC). They both make the same fundamental error. That being, that
"a Pope can do no wrong." If it were true that a Pope can do no
wrong it would mean a forfeiture of his free will. The sede-vacantist and the
NOC both share this false premise - albeit they draw different conclusions.
For example, the NOC is not bothered when a Pope kisses the Koran, or
announces to the world that the UN is the last hope of mankind, or allows
topless women on the altar as part of the liturgy, or is anointed by a pagan
witch doctor, or leads Jews to believe they don't need to convert to be
saved. The NOC will clap and applaud and shout yippee because he's the Pope
and "a Pope can do no wrong."

The see of Peter would be
empty...

On the other hand, the
sede-vacantist, also believing “a Pope can do no wrong,” is understandably
shocked by all of the above (all actual papal incidents) and knowing that
these things are clearly against the Faith, draws the conclusion that since
"a Pope can do no wrong" and he is doing this bad stuff, ergo he
cannot really be the Pope.

The basic problem with the
premise "a Pope can do no wrong" is that it denies the Pope's
God-given free will. (...)

To go on, the sede-vacantist
reasoning goes something like this: "If a Pope becomes a heretic he is
no longer a Catholic; and if he is not a Catholic he automatically loses the
office of Pope."

On the surface this logic may
seem attractive, but it actually poses some problems that make it untenable.
For example, let's say a Pope, orthodox in all ways, one morning wakes up and
decides that the Eucharist is only bread and wine and not the actual Body and
Blood of Christ. (...)

Let's say this Pope fully
embraced this error in his mind and even told a priest, who was one of his
aides, about this new (false) belief. So then what happens if the next day,
he sees the error of his way, truly repents and again embraces the Church's
teaching?

(…) He clearly held a false
idea, publicly for approximately 24 hours. (...) Other than the aide nobody
else in the world knew anything about it and the aide said it was forgotten.
If he automatically loses the papal office at some unidentified moment, but
then wholeheartedly repents, does he automatically regain the office or would
he have to be re-elected? It's really very absurd.”

First of, in reality, sedevacantists do believe that a Pope
can do much wrong and commit many mortal sins and even be damned. What
sedevacantism really teaches, as opposed to what Dan O'Connell claimed we
believe (as we will see further on), is that a valid Pope cannot commit
heresy and remain Pope.

Papal Infallibility does not mean that a pope cannot err at
all and it does not mean that a pope cannot lose his soul and be damned in Hell
for grave sin. It means that the valid successors of St. Peter (the popes of
the Catholic Church) cannot err when authoritatively teaching on a point of
Faith or morals to be held by the entire Church of Christ. We find the promise
of the unfailing faith for St. Peter and his successors referred to by Christ
in Luke 22.

Second, the Catholic Church infallibly teaches that a
heretic cannot be validly elected Pope (see the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus
Officio in the section "A HERETIC CANNOT BE A VALID POPE" further
below) and that a heretic cannot remain inside the Church, since a heretic is
not a member of the Catholic Church. The Vatican II claimants, therefore, are
non-Catholic Antipopes whose election was utterly null and void.

Third, those who refuse to believe in the dogma that a
heretic cannot be the Pope until they understand how there is justice or reason
in it – or as Dan O'Connell put it: "It's really very absurd" – are
simply withholding their Faith in Christ’s revelation. Those with the true
Faith in Christ (and His Church) accept His teaching first (dogma) and
understand the truth in it (i.e., why it is true) second. A Catholic
does not withhold his belief in Christ’s revelation until he can understand it.
That is the mentality of a faithless heretic who possesses insufferable pride.
St. Anselm sums up the true Catholic outlook on this point.

St. Anselm, Doctor of the Church,
Prosologion, Chap. 1: “For I do not seek to understand that I may believe,
but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe, that unless
I believed, I should not understand.”

Fourth, a Pope must also obstinately embrace a
heretical position in order to be a heretic, or knowingly contradict a teaching
that he knows that the Church officially holds. Hence if a Pope is not
obstinate in a false position that he holds and that is not well known and
taught by the Church, he may be a material heretic (a Catholic erring in good
faith), such as Pope John XXII was a material heretic when he held the false
view that the just of the Old Testament don’t receive the Beatific Vision until
after the General Judgment (and this false view of his was later infallibly
rejected by the Church and condemned as a heresy after he died, although the
Pope was not obstinate nor condemned himself during his life).

Canon 1325, 1917 Code of Canon
Law: “After the reception of baptism, if
anyone, retaining the name Christian, pertinaciously [or
obstinately] denies or doubts something to be believed from the truth of
divine and Catholic faith, [such a one] is a heretic.”

Fifth, since it’s already a settled issue based on the
Church’s dogma that a heretic cannot remain or be validly elected Pope, the
question of when a Pope who fell into heresy would become Pope again after he
lost his office and converted would be irrelevant. But in trying to answer this
question, it could logically be explained by the fact, presupposing the pope
has converted and is Catholic, that when his subjects confirm him as their
lawful pope: they are validating his reinstated office and that he is their
pope.

Sixth, it is also possible that God might prevent a specific
pope from falling into occult or formal heresy by either allowing an orthodox
pope to be elected instead or by ending the life of the pope or pope elect who
would or was about to fall into some heresy in order to protect His Church (as
He promised He would do).

Seventh, the article went on to compare the office of high
priest with the office of the papacy. But the office of the High Priesthood in
the old law is not analogous with the papacy in the new law. They are
extraordinarily different. And really, the Church’s dogmas has already settled
this question when it defined infallibly that a heretic cannot be validly
elected pope or remain pope or be a member of the Church so the argument of the
office of high priest with the office of the papacy is really irrelevant and
not to the point.

When Does a Heretical Pope Become an Invalid Pope?

The Tradition In Action website further endorses the
following response to a statement on their website:

A.S. Guimarães, writing for Tradition In Action on When
Does a Heretical Pope Become an Invalid Pope?:

“In considering when an
authority loses its validity, one is dealing with a social-political problem.
Since the Church is a visible society, for an authority to lose its validity,
the error that causes such loss must be known and rejected by a considerable
number of its members or the more influential. (...)

Summarizing our position:

When a Pope becomes a pertinacious heretic,
God knows it. Therefore, he loses the pontificate before God. He becomes an
illegitimate Pope.

However, given that he has all the appearances
of a Pope – duly elected by a College of Cardinals, followed by a hierarchy
of Bishops, and accepted by the Church as such – he is still a valid or a
de facto Pope. To stop being a valid Pope, a considerable part of the
members of this visible society called the Catholic Church should resist his
authority and make it inefficacious.

This is what occurs to me at
the moment to explain how our position of resistance is correct. Only by
uniting all traditionalists in this position will we be effective. In
passing, it is sad to notice that those who are dividing our ranks are
unconsciously perpetuating the validity of the progressivist authority they
pretend to oppose.”

The following is an email I sent to Tradition In Action
in order to properly understand what their current position is on the Vatican
II claimants since contradictive information was found on their website and on
other sedevacantist or traditional websites[1]:

Do you accept the Vatican II claimants as valid "popes" or as
Catholic?

Some information seem to be
contradictive. You admit in one newer article that one is automatically
excommunicated for heresy (on Muller:
http://www.traditioninaction.org/Questions/F062_Excom.htm).

Yet throughout your website you
call these automatically excommunicated heretics as popes and valid and that
"they still remain valid authorities of the Church until a new Pope
will declare their heresy, or until the ensemble of the faithful will make
their authority lose its effectiveness."
(http://www.traditioninaction.org/Questions/F037_ValidPope.html)

What's worse, you even listed
an email denouncing your position of viewing the antipopes as valid or
Catholic in the "Hate mail"[2] (...)

So what exactly do you believe.
Are they non-Catholic automatically excommunicated heretics and
hence lost their office for heresy and are therefore antipopes
(e.g., John XXIII, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis I) or do
they "still remain valid authorities of the Church until a new Pope will
declare their heresy, or until the ensemble of the faithful will make their
authority lose its effectiveness."

Please answer. (...)

[1]. Novus
Ordo Watch, Tradition in Action Gets It Wrong Again on Public Heretics:
"[UPDATE 6/28/13: Tradition In Action has corrected and apologized for
the errors they published regarding automatic excommunication: SEE HERE. We
gladly and gratefully accept this apology and retraction and hope that they
will do the same regarding the question of loss of office due to public
defection from the Faith...]"

Most Holy
Family Monastery, Why would you say that John Vennari is a heretic?:
"There is a very specific and very simple answer to this question. Every
honest person will agree with this, since it is an undeniable fact. John
Vennari holds that one can reject the Catholic Faith and still be a Catholic.
Here’s the proof:

John Vennari, Catholic Family News, “Father Ratzinger’s
Denial of Extra Ecclesia Nulla Salus,” July 2005, Editor’s Postscript, p. 11:
“This is not the first time Father Ratzinger denied the dogma
‘Outside the Church there is no salvation’. In his 1966 book Theological
Highlights of Vatican II, which was a commentary on the Second Vatican
Council, Father Ratzinger rejoices that the true teaching of the Council
document Lumen Gentium, according to the minds of the progressivists who
drafted the document, (Ratzinger was one of them) was that conversion is now
an option for the non-Catholic, not an obligation. He writes: ‘…A basic
unity – of churches that remain churches, yet become one Church – must
replace the idea of conversion, even though conversion retains its
meaningfulness for those in conscience motivated to seek it.’ Cardinal
Ratzinger admitted on numerous occasions that he had not changed
since the time of the Council when he wrote these heterodox statements. In
1984, Ratzinger said that since the Council he ‘has not changed.’”

John
Vennari fully admits that Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) has rejected the dogma
Outside the Church There is No Salvation for years and still rejects it. Yet,
he holds that Ratzinger is a Catholic. It is a fact, therefore, that John
Vennari holds that one can reject the Catholic Faith and still be a Catholic.
John Vennari is a complete heretic and is not a Catholic. The same applies
to “Tradition in Action,” who wrote the article entitled “Father Ratzinger’s
Denial of Extra Ecclesia Nulla Salus” yet still holds that he is a Catholic.
By continually admitting that people whom they still regard as Catholics
reject Catholic dogma, they are simply mocking and denying the necessity of
accepting Catholic dogma to be part of the Church.

The truth
is that Ratzinger does reject Catholic dogma and is therefore not a Catholic.

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896:
"No one who merely disbelieves in all (these heresies) can for
that reason regard himself as a Catholic or call himself one. For there may
be or arise some other heresies, which are not set out in this work of ours,
and, if any one holds to one single one of these he is not a Catholic."

[2].
"Anti-Pope John Paul II was excommunicated! If you support and believe
that he is the Pope[3], then it is known that you do not
understand the Catholic Faith!

1917
Catholic Canon Law and Infallible Bull and Encyc. state that a catholic who
teaches the heresies that JP II makes is excommunicated and a warlock! If you
are still holding on to any heresy you will have no Hope of salvation at
Judgment Day. The Mass was taken away, besides one must hold the Faith in
totem before ever attending a Mass. The V2 does exactly what the Luthers do,
and that is they have a meal or snack! Christ is NOT present in nor at these
evil happenings. The only person that is in Holy Mother Church is one who
obeys Her commandments!

Abjure
your heresy and denounce the last 5 Anti-Christ poser Popes and come back to
the One Holy Apostolic Roman Catholic Church. (...)"

[3].
Tradition In Action, "An honest presentation of some of the unusual
activities of the post-Vatican II Popes..." :

"The conduct of the last four Popes should be,
in our judgement, a matter of concern for the faithful. It is all the more
important and crucial for our times since His Holiness John Paul II
has actually spoken of changing the face of the Papacy in his 1995 Encyclical
Ut unum sint. It would seem that part of what he would like to change is
already being applied by way of the facts. If this is true, one who analyzes
the unusual things that are taking place has already seen some of the
principle previews of the future papacy.

"The principles that are orienting the Papcy today
seem to be frontally opposed to the principles that previously oriented the
Papacy. This change has been qualified as a revolution. Such a revolution in
the Papcy seems to exceed the limits of the authority of a Pope. For this
reason, the authors are against it.

The authors, therefore, are releasing a photo-book to prove
their thesis."

(From the
Introduction of "Previews of the New Papacy", By Atila Sinke
Guimarães & Marian Therese Horvat, Ph.D.)

By the way, Francis’ encyclical Evangelii Gaudium
contains numerous clear heresies, such as the heresy that “the followers of
Islam… together with us they adore the one, merciful God, who will judge
humanity on the last day” (Evangelii Gaudium, # 252) and that “Non-Christians
[such as atheists and pagans], by God’s gracious initiative, when they are
faithful to their own consciences, can live “justified by the grace of God”,
and thus be “associated to the paschal mystery of Jesus Christ”… to the
sacramental dimension of sanctifying grace... to live our own beliefs”
(Evangelii Gaudium, # 254). Concerning the Jews, Francis says: “We hold the
Jewish people in special regard because their covenant with God has never been
revoked [i.e., Francis says that the Jewish Old Covenant that awaited the
Messiah is still valid even though the Messiah has already come and the
New Covenant taken its place]… As Christians, we cannot consider Judaism as a
foreign religion; nor do we include the Jews among those called to turn from
idols [false gods] and to serve the true God [i.e., Francis says Jews are not
to be considered to be as those who turn from false gods in order to serve the
true God Jesus Christ and the Trinity since he already believes they serve the
true God!]… With them, we believe in the one God who acts in history, and with
them we accept his revealed word” (Evangelii Gaudium, # 247)

Further, in his Apostolic
Exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium,” Francis professes that it’s admirable for
Muslims to participate in daily Islamic prayers and religious services (252).
He professes that non-Christians are justified by the grace of God (254),
directly contrary to the Catholic profession of faith and Catholic dogma that
only Christians, that is, those with the catholic faith can be justified. And,
(254) of that document, Francis also speaks of non-Christian rites, signs and
expressions, in other words, the false beliefs and wicked practices of
non-Christian and pagan religions, as “God’s working” and things which “the
Holy Spirit raises up.” And in his encyclical “Evangelii Gaudium” (255),
Francis also professes that Religious Freedom, whereby everyone has the right
to promote any religious view in public, is to be viewed a fundamental human
right: “the importance of respect for religious freedom, viewed as a
fundamental human right. This includes “the freedom to choose the religion
which one judges to be true and to manifest one’s beliefs in public”
(Evangelii Gaudium, # 255).

Tradition In Action and their Posting of Mortally
Sinful Inducing, Immoral Images

It has come to our attention that
the Tradition In Action website frequently post mortally sinful inducing
and incident images and that they even damnably defend themselves while
doing this – all to the destruction of souls and of morals and the offense
of God. In truth, every person who has been led to commit the mortal sin of
lust and adultery in their hearts through their website will rightly and justly
demand that God executes his righteous vengeance on them on the day of judgment
since they tempted them into lustful thoughts! This same judgment of course
applies to any possible venial sin committed and all other temptations that has
been aroused in others because of their evil and satanic postings.

The following is an email that
someone sent to “Tradition In Action” in order to get them to remove indecent
photos:

Remove
Indecent Photos!

TIA,

Regarding
the photo on your website at the link Benedict's Fans Tattoo their Lower
Backs:

What
were you thinking? That photo is obviously indecent and should not have been
put on your site. Talk about undermining your credibility.

That
the same site that publishes all the material by Marian Horvat relating to
proper manners, decorum, dress, morals, etc. would publish such an
inappropriate photograph defies logic.

My
hope is that this is just a temporary lapse of prudence.

P.R.

Tradition In Action responds:

P.R.,

Thank
you for the good lesson on morals. It is always edifying to see a person duly
concerned about morality in such a filthy century like ours.

TIA
has affirmed Catholic Morals on every possible occasion. A brief visit to our
pages on Morals, Catholic Virtues and Forgotten Truths, along with the pages
on good customs, formation and manners that you mentioned suffices to prove
this.

When
we expose indecent procedures of the conciliar Popes, progressivist Bishops
and clergy, we do so not to indulge in any licentiousness, as you seem to
suppose. We do so to prove how complacent these religious authorities have
become with immorality. In short, we expose those authorities to resist them
and to invite others to a healthy resistance.

We
believe that this is an effective way to fight Progressivism. We give you a
practical example: Some years ago, we placed various photos of John Paul II
with naked natives on our site. We received complaints that those photos were
too graphic. We left them posted to show who JPII was. Today, many people on
the internet are familiar with those photos and are vaccinated not to accept
JPII as a blessed (here and here), as Benedict XVI will impose upon all
Catholics on May 1, if God does not prevent him from doing so.

Now,
if we were to follow the advice of persons like you, our readers would not be
prepared to defend themselves against this great fraud - the pretended
sanctity of Pope Woytyla. So, those who asked us to take off those photos,
conscious or unconsciously, were trying to cover for Wojtyla’s scandals.

When
a lawyer in a courtroom describes details of the sexual humiliation suffered
by a victim of a pedophile priest, he is not doing so to promote immorality
or induce the members of the jury to sin. He is showing the terrible extent
of the crime and asking for justice. If someone in the name of morality would
try to stop the lawyer from exposing those excesses, he could well be
suspected of complicity by covering for the guilty priest.

This
is our simple logic: In order to protect the morality we love, we expose the
excesses of immorality tacit or explicitly approved by the religious
authorities who should be safeguarding Catholic Morals.

In
the specific case of those photos you mentioned, we are showing the great
complacency of the religious authorities who organize WYDs and allow those
manifestations of support for Benedict XVI.

So,
if you do not have an agenda and are sincere in your complaint, but cannot
see those pictures without having problems of purity, please, do not look at
those photos. They are indeed strong. However, if you can transcend those
problems, you will witness the extreme moral abyss into which Progressivism
has dragged the Catholic Church. You will be invited to follow the passion of
our Holy Mother Church and fight for her.

We
hope this elucidation may calm your indignant concerns.

Cordially,

TIA
correspondence desk

This devil also said recently in defending
himself when being accused for posting pictures that could only be described as
pornographic: “If we would have completely covered with black stripes the
provocative parts [of the nude model] of those photos, many would say that they
do not prove anything; perhaps you would be among those. Since we let our
readers know who that woman the Pope embraced actually is – distorting as much
as possible those photos without destroying the evidence – you jumped against
us claiming that you are scandalized and accusing us of promoting sin.”

The article the reader was exposed to said this:
“We reproduce some of the [nude] model’s poses below to brief our readers and
allow them to evaluate the inconceivable moral abyss into which Francis is
dragging present day Rome [by having embraced this woman]”.

This is totally evil. The Catholic
Church based on Sacred Scripture and the Natural Law infallibly condemns
immorality and the exposing of it to both young and old alike.

Matthew
18:6: “But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that
believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about
his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.”

Luke
17:1-2: “And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals [that is,
temptations or encouragements to sin] should not come: but woe to him
through whom they come. It were better for him, that a millstone were
hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize
one of these little ones.”

As we can see here, Jesus says
that it’s better to be drowned in the depths of the sea than to give “scandal”
to anyone. Yet “Tradition In Action” does the exact opposite and (obstinately
so) gives to all people that are visiting their website a direct cause for
“scandal” and an occasion of falling into sin through the immoral, evil and
sensual images that they permit and allows to be displayed there and, what is
even worse, they do this even after they have been told not to do so
and they even defend themselves!

Pope
Leo XIII, Exeunte iam anno (# 10), Dec. 25, 1888: “Now the whole
essence of a Christian life is to reject the corruption of the world and to
oppose constantly any indulgence in it…”

No one ever needed to see such pictures to be
able to understand truths of the Christian Faith, or in order to be saved. This
is just a sinful excuse. Indeed, in a courtroom, when a criminal is being
judged, for example, for possessing or selling drugs, the jury or judge does
not try the drugs to see whether it is really drugs or not, but a single lab
confirms this through a test, and the reason why not all in the courtroom does
try it, is in part because all understand that drugs are harmful. This is a
perfect example to sensual pictures. Since these pictures act like a drug on
the man or woman who look at them: one must do all in one’s power to restrict
access to these and similar things so that the weak may not fall and enter
hell.

For instance, Pope Pius XI in his
encyclical Divini illius magistri
specifically condemned sex education. In doing so, he pointed out that it’s not
ignorance of such things which lead to sins in this regard, but rather exposure
to such enticements.

Pope Pius XI, Divini illius magistri, Dec. 31, 1931:
“But much more pernicious are those opinions and teachings regarding the
following of nature absolutely as a guide. These enter upon a certain phase of
human education which is full of difficulties, namely, that which has to do
with moral integrity and chastity. For
here and there a great many foolishly and dangerously hold and advance the
method of education, WHICH IS DISGUSTINGLY CALLED ‘SEXUAL,’ since they
foolishly feel that they can, by merely natural means, after discarding
every religious and pious aid, warn youth against sensuality and excess, by
initiating and instructing all of them, without distinction of sex, even
publicly, in hazardous doctrines; and what is worse, by exposing them prematurely to the occasions, in order that their
minds having become accustomed, as they say, may grow hardened to the
dangers of puberty.

“But in this such persons gravely err, because they do not
take into account the inborn weakness of human nature, and that law planted
within our members, which, to use the words of the Apostle Paul, ‘fights
against the law of my mind’ (Rom. 7:23); and besides, they rashly deny what we
have learned from daily experience, that young
people certainly more than others fall into disgraceful acts, not so much
because of an imperfect knowledge of the intellect as because of a will exposed
to enticements and unsupported by divine assistance.”

In blatant disregard of this
teaching of the Natural Law and Sacred Scripture, indecent pictures, including
graphic ones (such as nude women, partly nude women, and women dressed
in bikinis etc!), are shown all over the
Tradition In Action’s website, thus corrupting the innocence of children,
youths and adults alike from their earliest years to their oldest. In fact, it
would be a gross understatement to merely call these images “immoral.”

Moreover, the Council of Trullo
and Council of Trent both condemned the use and display of immodest
paintings. This of course condemns even more any immodest photos (it is very
sad that the Latin Church didn’t follow up very well on this moral dogmatic law
with the almost innumerable immodest and evil paintings and statues found in
religious houses throughout the world).

Council
of Trullo, Canon 100, A.D. 692: “‘Let thine eyes look aright, and keep thy
heart with all diligence’ (Prov. 4:25 and 23), wisdom bids us. For the
sensations of the body can easily foist their influence upon the soul. We
therefore command that henceforth in no way whatever shall any pictures
be drawn, painted, or otherwise wrought, whether in frames or otherwise hung
up, that appeal to the eye fascinatingly, and corrupt the mind, and excite
inflammatory urgings to the enjoyment of shameful pleasures. If anyone
should attempt to do this, let him be excommunicated.”

Concil
of Trent, Sesssion 25, December 3d and 4th, 1563, On Sacred Images: “And if any
abuses have crept in amongst these holy and salutary observances, the holy
Synod ardently desires that they be utterly abolished; in such wise that no
images, (suggestive) of false doctrine, and furnishing occasion of dangerous
error to the uneducated, be set up. … Moreover, in the invocation
of saints, the veneration of relics, and the sacred use of images,
every superstition shall be removed, all filthy lucre be abolished; finally, all
lasciviousness be avoided; in such wise that figures shall not be
painted or adorned with a beauty exciting to lust; nor the celebration
of the saints, and the visitation of relics be by any perverted into revellings
and drunkenness; as if festivals are celebrated to the honour of the saints by
luxury and wantonness. In fine, let so great care and diligence be used herein
by bishops, as that there be nothing seen that is disorderly, or that is
unbecomingly or confusedly arranged, nothing that is profane, nothing
indecorous, seeing that holiness becometh the house of God.”

Despite this, that so much immoral
and naked religious images and statues have been made, spread and depicted even
in churches! during the last 700 years (or more) is undoubtedly a sign of the
gradual falling away from God and the corruption of morals within and without
the Church by the people, and indicates why God ultimately abandoned it (the
Church) to what it is has become today.

It is clearly a mortal sin and
against God’s law to knowingly post and lead others to lascivious
images. For who but a satanically, perverted and evil mind would knowingly
put himself and others into possible mortal sin (or even venial sin) of impurity
and adultery against their own soul, and the all good God? A person who obstinately
posts such images definitely commits mortal sin (and if they have been rebuked
they have even less reason for excuse) not only for putting himself in totally
unnecessary temptations and for beholding what is not lawful for him to behold,
but also for tempting his neighbor and for exposing him to behold what is not
lawful for him to behold.

St. Alphonsus Liguori writes the
following concerning this:

“But
I do not see how looks at young persons of a different sex can be excused from
the guilt of a venial fault, or even from mortal sin, when there is
proximate danger of criminal consent. "It is not lawful," says
[Pope] St. Gregory, "to behold what it is not lawful to covet."
The evil thought which proceeds from looks, though it should be rejected, never
fails to leave a stain upon the soul.” (The True Spouse of Jesus Christ,
Mortification of the Eyes, p. 221)

“Brother Roger, a Franciscan of
singular purity, being once asked why he was so reserved in his intercourse
with women, replied, that when men avoid the occasions of sin, God preserves
them; but when they expose themselves to danger, they are justly
abandoned by the Lord, and easily fall into some grievous transgressions.”
(St. Alphonsus Liguori, The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, Mortification
of the Eyes, p. 221)

Instead of posting and watching
evil images (or films) of immodestly clothed women that are not lawful to
behold, one can describe what this is about in modest terms in text format
if one already knows what it is about, but one cannot actually post the images
themselves, or search for them, because the Catholic Church and God
himself infallibly condemns anyone that knowingly puts himself in unnecessary
temptations and occasions of falling into sin, even if the motive seem
“necessary” or “praiseworthy” (see below). I fear many people browse such kind
of “religious” sites as Tradition In Action’s images section because they are
perverts and have an “excuse” for beholding and secretly delighting in what is
not lawful for them to behold.

They said, if you “cannot see
those pictures without having problems of purity, please, do not look at those
photos. They are indeed strong.” So the photos are strong and induce
impurity in people, and yet they post them for all their visitors to see to the
destruction of their souls and the offense of God? This is evil. It is nothing
less than demonic and a crime worthy of hellfire.

Whatever warnings they make, since
people are evil and sinful, when such incitements is brought before them, many
will watch it despite their “warning” and especially so when it is disguised
behind some “religious” motive... (you see, if you watched it and even posted
it for us, why can we not watch it?) Do you see what kind of evil example this
gives to others? Also, since their postings appear on the internet and any one
on any site can link to their articles and pictures, many people can
unknowingly enter their site or see their pictures without knowing the graphic
content. And that is another reason why it is forbidden to post immodest images
for any reason.

That one must avoid the proximate
occasion of sin in order to be Saved and
receive Forgiveness of one’s sins from God is a certain fact of
the Natural and Divine law that has always been taught by the Church and Her
Saints. For instance, Blessed Pope Innocent XI during his papacy, condemned
three propositions that denied this truth:

Pope
Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral
Matters #61, March 4, 1679: “He can
sometimes be absolved, who remains in a proximate occasion of sinning, which
he can and does not wish to omit, but rather directly and professedly seeks
or enters into.” – Condemned statement
by Pope Innocent XI.

Pope
Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral
Matters #62, March 4, 1679: “The proximate occasion for sinning is not
to be shunned when some useful and honorable cause for not shunning it
occurs.” – Condemned statement by Pope
Innocent XI.

Pope
Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral Matters #63, March 4, 1679: “It is
permitted to seek directly the proximate occasion for sinning for a
spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor.” – Condemned statement by Pope Innocent XI.

Also, one may never commit evil
that good may come:

Romans
3:7-8: “For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his
glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner? And not rather (as we are
slandered, and as some affirm that we say) let
us do evil, that there may come good? whose damnation is just.”

St.
Augustine, To Consentius, Against Lying: “Let us do evil that good may come? A
thing which you see how the Apostle detests.”

St.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, First
Part, Q. 84, Art. 4, Reply to Objection 5: “That a man commit a sin with a
good intention, seems to point to ignorance, in so far as he knows not that evil should not be done that good may come
of it.”

St.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Second
Part of the Second Part, Q. 64, Art. 5, Reply to Objection 3: “Again it is
not lawful for anyone to take his own life for fear he should consent to sin,
because “evil must not be done that good
may come” (Romans 3:8) or that evil may be avoided especially if the evil be
of small account and an uncertain event, for it is uncertain whether one will
at some future time consent to a sin, since God is able to deliver man from sin
under any temptation whatever.”

Now, those who believe that it is
permissible to post evil images are evidently blind to this Catholic truth,
because most assuredly, they are encouraging themselves and other men and women
to sin mortally.

So these quotes directly condemns
Tradition In Action’s evil “excuses” for continuing to post such evil, filthy
images to the direct offense of God—whom they claim to worship—and the harm of
souls. They said:

Some
years ago, we placed various photos of John Paul II with naked natives
on our site. We received complaints that those photos were too graphic.
We left them posted to show who JPII was. Today, many people on the
internet are familiar with those photos and are vaccinated not to accept JPII
as a blessed...

Now,
if we were to follow the advice of persons like you, our readers would not
be prepared to defend themselves against this great fraud - the pretended
sanctity of Pope Woytyla....

This
is our simple logic: In order to protect the morality we love, we
expose the excesses of immorality tacit or explicitly approved by the
religious authorities who should be safeguarding Catholic Morals....

So,
if you do not have an agenda and are sincere in your complaint, but cannot
see those pictures without having problems of purity, please, do not look
at those photos. They are indeed strong. However, if
you can transcend those problems, you will witness the extreme moral abyss
into which Progressivism has dragged the Catholic Church. You
will be invited to follow the passion of our Holy Mother Church and fight for
her.

This is just satanic. It is evil
excuses for perverts and that is only approved by perverts. Also, as we will
see below, not to be disturbed by immodest images or sexual temptations can
many times be a very bad sign (and not something good). Not that one is
excused to watch or post such images anyway just because one “fools” oneself
into thinking that one does not get affected by them (just as if that would
excuse putting others into temptations and mortal sin). And only a liar
would say that he does not get affected by graphic and strong sensual,
suggestive images, for unless the lust of the flesh is completely dead in
him—which is not to be expected by anyone in today’s evil and morally perverted
society—he will obviously get affected and harden his heart and commit sin and
offend God, however much he want to deny this truth.

According to one such story found
in the Life of the Holy Fathers it is explained how those people who,
being already owned by the devil in other ways, may not even be tempted much
by him with sexual temptations or imaginations, since, being already his
own, he leaves them alone. Also, according to the same text, “those who are
freed from [impure] thoughts are those who have moved into [sinful] deeds”.
But if this is true with only thoughts, how much more true when actually
viewing impure images? Hence if these people (such as Tradition In Action) were
more troubled with sexual temptations, one should think that they would be more
on their guard and be more careful about themselves and of falling and exposing
themselves (and others) into this sin. But since the devil don’t want evil
people to be on their guard and that they should continue giving others a bad
example, he sometimes leaves off tempting them.

Life of the Holy Fathers, Book 5, On Sexual Temptation: “There was a certain
brother who was most zealous in ordering his life. And when he was grievously
troubled by the demon of sex he went to a certain old man and told him his
thoughts. When this “expert” heard, he was indignant and called the brother
a miserable wretch unworthy of the monk's habit to entertain such thoughts. The
brother, hearing this, despaired of himself, left his cell and began to go back
to the world. But by the mercy of God, abba Apollo met him, and seeing that
he was upset and unhappy he asked him, "Brother, why so sad?" In
great confusion of mind he was at first unwilling to answer, but in the face of
much questioning by the old man as to what the matter was he at last confessed,
saying, "I am bothered by thoughts of sex, and I confessed to that old
man and according to him there is no hope of salvation for me, so in despair
I'm going back to the world." When father Apollo heard this he talked
and reasoned with him like a wise physician, saying, "Don't be too
dumbfounded, or despairing of yourself. Even at my age and state of life I
can be greatly troubled by thoughts such as these. Don't collapse in
this time of testing; it can be cured not so much by human advice as by the
mercy of God. But just for today grant me one request: go back to your
cell." This the brother did. Abba Apollo however hastened to the cell of
that old man who had sown despair and standing outside prayed the Lord, "Lord,
who allows us to be tempted for our good, [temptations often leads us to
avoid putting ourselves in the proximate danger of falling] turn the battle
which this brother has suffered against this old man, that in his old age he
may learn from experience what he didn't learn long since, that you must
have compassion on those who are troubled by this sort of temptation."

“Having
completed his prayer he saw an Ethiopian standing by the cell casting arrows
against this old man, who, severely wounded, began to stagger about here and
there as if drunk with wine. Unable to bear it any longer he rushed out of the
cell and began to return to the world by the same road as the young brother had
taken. But abba Apollo, knowing what was happening, met him, and running up
to him asked, "Where are you going? And what is the reason for the agitated
state you are in?" But he, sensing that the holy man knew all about what
was happening, could say nothing for very shame. "Go back to your
cell," said abba Apollo, "and acknowledge your own weakness,
recognise it as part of yourself. For either you have been overlooked by
the devil up till now, or else despised as being so lacking in virtue as to be
unworthy of striving against him. Did I say 'strife'? You weren't even
able to put up with his attacks for a single day! But all this happened to you
because when that young man was attacked by our common adversary, instead of
giving him helpful advice against the devil as you ought, you drove him into
despair, forgetful of that wise precept by which we are bidden to save those
on a pathway towards death and neglect not to redeem the condemned (Proverbs
14). Nor have you heeded the sayings of our Saviour, 'A bruised reed he shall
not break, and a smoking flax he shall not quench' (Matthew 12.20). No one can
withstand the attacks of the enemy, or quench and contain the fire of
rebellious nature, unless the grace of God comes to the aid of our natural
infirmity, which in all our prayer we beg God in his mercy to heal in us, and
that he may turn away from us the attacks launched against us, for it is of him
that we are cast down and again restored to the way of salvation, it is he who
strikes and then heals us with his hands, he humbles and exalts, he kills and
makes alive, he leads us down to the depths and raises us up again" (1
Kings 2).

“Having said
this he prayed, and at once the old man was freed from that battle. And abba
Apollo urged him to seek from the Lord a tongue of discretion, so that he might
know when the time was right for giving a sermon.

“V.v.5. Syrus Alexandrinus, when asked about sexual
thoughts replied thus, "If you didn't have thoughts you would be
a hopeless case, since those who are freed from thoughts are those who have
moved into deeds, that is, those who have sinned in the body are the ones who
have not fought against thoughts of sin, or turned them down. The one who
sins in the body has gone beyond being troubled by thoughts." ”

Concerning the same topic, see
the following articles explaining why this is so:

While many people would never post
such images as “Tradition In Action” does, many nonetheless would have no
problem or scruple about posting “less” immodest forms of pictures of both
women and men immodestly dressed after the worlds fashion on their website or
forum or link to these articles where such images are contained.

In truth, if anyone obstinately
posts any kind of immodesty at a website or a forum – such as by posting
pictures that shows the so-called modern day women’s fashion that reveals the
womanly figure by the wearing of pants and tight clothing in a revealing,
sensual or immodest way – this would not only be immodest and immoral, but also
completely evil and a mortal sin since such clothing has the direct and
potential cause to incite a man’s lust and hence cause him – and all the
visitors or viewers of that page – to commit the mortal sin of lust and
adultery in their hearts.

Matthew
5:28: “[Jesus said:] But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a
woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

St.
Jean Eudes, Priest and Missionary and Founder of the Congregation of Jesus
and Mary: “But there is perhaps nothing more striking than what is reported
by St. Jerome, one of the four great Doctors of Holy Church, and which took
place during his lifetime, in a house which he knew perfectly and in regard to
a Roman lady of high condition, named Praetextate. She was sister-in-law of St.
Paula, the spiritual daughter of this great Saint. St. Paula wishing to quit
the city of Rome, to visit the holy places in Judea which the Savior had
hallowed by His presence, left her daughter Eustochium, who also wished to
consecrate herself to God, in the care of her aunt, Praetextate. This latter
wished to frustrate the designs of the pious Paula upon her daughter, and by
the advice of her husband, obliged the young girl to lay aside her simple,
modest dress and assume a more sumptuous one, at the same time compelling her
to wear her hair according to the latest fashion and to paint her cheeks. A
fearful chastisement overtook the worldly woman; for, on the night following,
an Angel sent by God spoke to her thus: "Thou hast dared to prefer the
command of thy husband to that of Jesus Christ, and with sacrilegious hands to
adorn after a worldly fashion the head of this virgin of God. Behold the
punishment of thy crime! Thy hands which have done this deed shall become
withered, so that they will never more serve thee, and in five months from now
thou shalt be cast into hell. And if thou shalt continue in thy wickedness, thy
husband and all thy children shall likewise die." All of which, says St.
Jerome, was accomplished to the letter, and, at the end of five months, the
unhappy woman died suddenly, without giving any sign of repentance.”

Our Lady of Fatima in the year
1917 also warned about the evils of modern day women’s fashion and about the
sins of the flesh in deed and thought that is directly caused by this most evil
sin:

Our Lady of Fatima: “The
sins of the world are too great! The sins which lead most souls to hell are
sins of the flesh! Certain fashions are going to be introduced which
will offend Our Lord very much. Those who serve God should not follow these
fashions. The Church has no fashions; Our Lord is always the same. Many
marriages are not good; they do not please Our Lord and are not of God.”

Yet according to modern-day
“Catholics” who know nothing about the Catholic faith and the teachings of the
saints, current modern-day fashion in which women dress like men or with
revealing and tight clothing showing off their womanly form (even if modestly),
is not offensive to God. Well, they are completely wrong.

St. Clement of Alexandria,
Father of the Church, On Clothes (c. 198 A.D.): “Luxurious clothing that
cannot conceal the shape of the bodyis no more a covering.
For such clothing, falling close to the body, takes its form more easily,
and adhering as it were to the flesh, receives its shape, and marks out the
woman’s figure. As a result, the whole make of the body is visible to
spectators, although they cannot see the body itself.” (The Instructor
or The Paedagogus, Book II, Chapter XI)

How did most
Catholic women, and even pagans and infidels, dress before in time? The answer
is that they all dressed more like how nuns are dressed, that is, they were
using a long dress totally covering their behind, front and legs down to the
ankle and up to the waist with no tight fitting, visible parts whatsoever below
the waist. And above the waist were usually worn, not some insignificant,
small, thin shirt or “covering” as most woman dress today showing of their
whole womanly form, even if not revealing any flesh, but rather a significant,
thick, long shirt that covers the womanly figure, the arms down to the wrist,
shoulders and neck. Neither did these dresses or shirts end visibly at the
waist, thus inviting curious immodest thoughts or revealing any flesh or worse
as modern day shirts, dresses, skirts and pants do, but these skirts or dresses
were usually one part of the whole dress, or worn in such a way as to invite no
immodest thoughts. Such dresses are totally without guilt. Everything else will
at least have some fault. In general, the more the clothing reveals flesh and
the bodily form, the more sinful it becomes. Not only did most women dress in
such a good way before in time, but most women, and especially the poorer, did
not wear any makeup at all, and all women also wore a head covering in the
Church, and a large portion of the women also wore it in everyday occasions.

All the saints and fathers of the
Church have of course unanimously condemned and opposed the evil use of makeup.

St.
Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Father of the Church (De Habit. Virg.): “I
hold that not only virgins and widows, but also wives and all women without
exception, should be admonished that nowise should they deface God’s work
and fabric, the clay that He has fashioned, with the aid of yellow pigments,
black powders or rouge, or by applying any dye that alters the natural features.
. . They lay hands on God, when they strive to reform what He has formed. This
is an assault on the Divine handiwork, a distortion of the truth. Thou shalt
not be able to see God, having no longer the eyes that God made, but those the
devil has unmade; with him shalt thou burn on whose account thou art
bedecked.” (Quoted by St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, in the Summa
Theologica, Second Part of the Second Part, Q. 169, Art. 2)

St. Anthony Mary Claret, Archbishop of Santiago and
Missionary: “Now, observe, my daughter, the contrast between the
luxurious dress of many women, and the raiment and adornments of Jesus…
Tell me: what relation do their fine shoes bear to the spikes in Jesus’ Feet?
The rings on their hands to the nails which perforated His? The fashionable
coiffure to the Crown of Thorns? The painted face to That [of Jesus]
covered with bruises? Shoulders exposed by the low-cut gown to His, all
striped with Blood? Ah, but there is a marked likeness between these worldly
women and the Jews who, incited by the Devil, scourged Our Lord! At the hour of
such a woman’s death, I think Jesus will be heard saying: ‘Cujus est imago
haec... of whom is she the image?’ And the reply will be: ‘Demonii... of the
Devil!’ Then He will say: ‘Let her who has followed the Devil’s fashions be
handed over to him; and to God, those who have imitated the modesty of Jesus
and Mary.’”

Considering how most
western woman dress today, it’s safe to say that many of them in fact dress in
a mortally sinful fashion. A woman that does not desire to be lusted after by
others and who do not want to give others an occasion of falling into sin, will
of course never dress in a sensual or immodest way. Indeed, very few people
today dress without any guilt at all. But amongst the few who do, most of them
are definitely found amongst the pagans, infidels and idolaters, and especially
in the poorer countries.

Tradition In Action also compared
himself when publicly posting mortally sinful inducing images for the
whole world to see with “When a lawyer in a courtroom describes
details of the sexual humiliation suffered by a victim of a pedophile priest,
he is not doing so to promote immorality or induce the members of the jury to
sin.” But this is a false argument since what is occurring behind
closed doors (and that is not for the public) and for a legal purpose
has no comparison with his own action ofpublicly posting
immodest and mortally sinful inducing images for not only the whole world to
see, but also for minors, youths, the married, the weak and even the old
alike!

No one ever needed to see such pictures to be able to
understand truths of the Christian Faith, or in order to be saved. This is just
a sinful excuse by Tradition In Action. Indeed, in a courtroom, when a criminal
is being judged, for example, for possessing or selling drugs, the jury or
judge does not try the drugs to see whether it is really drugs or not, but a
single lab confirms this through a test, and the reason why not all in the
courtroom does try it, is in part because all understand that drugs are
harmful. This is a perfect example to sensual pictures: since these pictures
act like a drug on the man or woman who look at them: one must do all in one’s
power to restrict access to these and similar things so that the weak may not
fall and enter hell. When sensual pictures exist that shows us something we
need to explain or expose to others, they must be described in text, rather
than in a picture, as the picture works in the same way as drugs on a drug
addict.

Also, it is an injustice to
compare the current worldly and ungodly prosecuting system with the more
honorable Catholic prosecuting system of old where more effort and weight was
put on personal testimonies and oaths of that something actually took
place without necessarily having to go into unnecessary, graphic
details. (The moral standard was also much higher in the past.)

Again, Bl. Pope Innocent XI
condemned and still condemns Tradition In Action’s diabolical and
invalid excuses for obstinately continuing to view and post immodest images to
the destruction of their own and other people’s souls and the offense of God
and scandal to their neighbor; but they are also condemned and still
condemned for their evil practice of putting themselves and their
neighbor’s soul not only in the direct proximate occasion of sinning,
but also in the direct path of and in fact, in front view of – at least
– a venial sin; but also a possible mortal sin to be committed against the
all good God, as explained by St. Alphonsus, who quotes from Pope St. Gregory
the Great:

St.
Alphonsus Liguori, Mortification of the Eyes: “But I do not see how looks at
young persons of a different sex can be excused from the guilt of a venial
fault, OR EVEN FROM MORTAL SIN, when there is proximate
danger of criminal consent. "It is not lawful," says [Pope] St.
Gregory, "to behold what it is not lawful to covet." The evil
thought which proceeds from looks, though it should be rejected, never fails to
leave a stain upon the soul.” (The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, p. 221)

Moreover, know that just as all mortal sins are
very serious, so too a venial sin is made mortal if a human being
delights in it with the intention of persevering.” (The Revelations of
St. Bridget, Book 7, Chapter 27)

According to this definition by Our Lord Jesus Christ, if
a person were to commit a venial sin but does not want to or intend to continue
committing this sin again in the future, such a person would not be in a
state of damnation because of his sin, even if it turned out that he committed
it again in the future, because his will at the time was not to continue doing
it.

In contrast, if another person has
“the intention of persevering” in a venial sin and does not repent with a firm
resolution or will to stop doing this sin again in the future (such as the at
least venial sin of continuing putting oneself in proximate or direct
occasion of sinning), but intends to continue doing it and are unrepentant for
his sin, then he is in a state of damnation.

Our Lord’s words are crystal clear
that a “venial sin is made mortal if a human being delights in it
with the intention of persevering.” Hence, even if this sin was “only”
venial: most people who view and search for such immoral images, even for a
“good” motive, obviously do this with a direct and secret “delight” (if they
did not like what they were doing: they would obviously feel a deep horror over
the fact that they are offending God and harming their own and other people’s
soul and that they are doing things that are contrary to God’s law of charity
and morals etc., and if so, they would obviously seek a way so as not to expose
themselves to this sinful occasion anymore; and if they do not feel any horror
over the fact that they are offending God and harming their own soul and that
of their neighbor, and if they do not seek a way to avoid putting themselves in
this situation again in the future (such as by making a firm resolution not to
view or search for such images anymore): it is a clear and infallible sign that
they like what they are doing) and hence they fall under the direct
condemnation of Jesus Christ above, and they commit a mortal sin since they
have an “intention of persevering” doing this sin, for “the smallest sin,
lusted after, is enough to damn anyone from the kingdom of Heaven, who
does not repent.” (Jesus speaking to St. Bridget, Book 1, Chapter 32)

The Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, has the following
interesting things to say about how a venial sin can become a mortal sin, and
about the evil action of choosing sin before choosing to love God:

“The very fact that anyone chooses something that
is contrary to divine charity, proves that he prefers it to the love of God,
and consequently, that he loves it more than he loves God. Hence it
belongs to the genus of some sins, which are of themselves contrary to charity,
that something is loved more than God; so that they are mortal by reason of
their genus… Sometimes, however, the sinner’s will is directed to a thing
containing a certain inordinateness, but which is not contrary to the love of
God and one’s neighbor, e.g. an idle word, excessive laughter, and so forth:
and such sins are venial by reason of their genus… It is written (Sirach 19:1):
"He that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little." Now
he that sins venially seems to contemn small things. Therefore by
little and little he is disposed to fall away together into mortal sin.”
(St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, First Part of the Second Part, Q.
88, Art. 2 & 3, Reply to Objection 1/On the contrary)

And further on, he says:

“Whether
a venial sin can become mortal?I answer that, The fact of a venial
sin becoming a mortal sin… This is possible, in so far as one may fix
one’s end in that venial sin, or direct it to some mortal sin
as end, as stated above (Article 2). [Excerpt from article 2:] … it happens
sometimes that a sin which is venial generically by reason of its object, becomes
mortal on the part of the agent, either because he fixes his last end
therein, or because he directs it to something that is a mortal sin
in its own genus; for example, if a man direct an idle word to the commission
of adultery [or if a man takes illicit and secret delight in beholding what is
not lawful to behold, such as by viewing at and searching for immoral images].”
(St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, First Part of the Second Part, Q.
88, Art. 4 & 2)

Pope Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral Matters #61,
March 4, 1679: “He can sometimes be
absolved, who remains in a proximate occasion of sinning, which he can
and does not wish to omit, but rather directly and professedly seeks or
enters into.” – Condemned statement by
Pope Innocent XI.

Pope Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral Matters #62,
March 4, 1679: “The proximate occasion for sinning is not to be shunned
when some useful and honorable cause for not shunning it occurs.” – Condemned statement by Pope Innocent XI.

Pope Innocent XI, Various Errors
on Moral Matters #63, March 4, 1679: “It is permitted to seek directly the
proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own
or of a neighbor.” – Condemned statement
by Pope Innocent XI.

For instance, in order to help
people avoid occasions of falling into sin, we often tell them about the absolute
need to surf the internet without images on and with
an adblock (which means that they can’t
see images at all when surfing various websites or any internet ads) so
as to avoid innumerable occasions of falling into sin, not only venial sins,
but also mortal sins of impurity.

It goes
without saying, but no one may enter this website with images on or watch their
evil image section “exposing” corruption since it is a mortal sin to behold
such things and an occasion of sin; the same applies to novusordowatch.org
and similar evil websites posting lascivious and nude images, but
novusordowatch.org is worse since they have a function that pops up their other
articles and related images to that article at the bottom of their website,
which means that any image may be displayed there according to their perverted
standard, which means that even if you read a religious article with images on
that you deemed safe, something immodest may be forced in your face against
your will when scrolling down. This is why we stress that one must avoid having
pictures on when surfing nowadays, for even the most so called traditional
websites, are totally clueless about what modesty and occasion of sin is.

(I have of course not seen any of
the evil images mentioned at Tradition In Action’s website; nor did I allow any
images to be shown on my web browser in order to write this section, since it
would have been totally evil and stupid of me to have done that (considering
that I knew the danger) since this text can be done perfectly fine by me without
having to expose my self to damnation. But even if this work could not
have been done without actually seeing these images, it would still not have
been lawful for me to look at them without sin, for some things can never be
excused even if they are done for a good motive (as Pope Innocent XI showed
above) or even in order to save one’s own life! Hence that one cannot actually
commit adultery, watch porn or deny Christ even if this is done in order to save
one’s own life or the life of someone else, and it would be a mortal sin to do
this since no one can ever be excused from committing these sins. In truth,
concerning many grave matters such as when exposing oneself to
sexual temptations, one must always have an absolutely necessary motive in
order to justify this action, otherwise it will always be a sin. One example
demonstrating this fact (of when it would be lawful) would be if a male
doctor absolutely needs to see a problematic body part of a woman in order to
save her life. In that case it would be lawful, but without such a necessity,
it is always unlawful.)

That is why we always tell people to surf the internet
without images on and with an adblock so as to avoid exposing oneself to
innumerable temptations. Now, many people claiming to be Catholic and
worshiping God and desiring forgiveness
of their sins and enter Heaven strangely don’t care anything about this
advice (of surfing the internet with an adblock and without images on) and even
chose to ignore it because of their perverse and evil will and attachment to images.
Now if they really wanted forgiveness of their sins and cared anything about
God, and to please Him, and not to offend Him, they obviously would not
surf the internet with images on and thus expose themselves to innumerable bad images of sensual women
or men tempting them everyday to fall into occasions of sin against the all
good God.

It should go without saying, but when images is necessary or
needed for what one is doing, then it is lawful to surf with them on for as
long time as it is necessary — provided it is not a danger to one’s soul and
the site is not bad. But how often do we need to see images at all times?
Never. Only at a particular time or occasion, such as for a work, or when
reading some article, but other than that we have no reason or necessity to
have them on, and therefore, they must be off.

And yes, it is a sin to refuse to follow this good advice
since it is virtually impossible to escape bad and immodest images and
commercials of men or women tempting you every day when surfing the internet
(and the same of course applies to watching most media too, which is why we
recommend people never to watch movable images and that they only listen to the
audio). Only a condemned person not fearing God or sin at all would refuse to
follow this good advice that helps him or her avoid falling into sexual
temptations and sins everyday.

“Brother Roger, a Franciscan of singular purity, being once
asked why he was so reserved in his intercourse with women, replied, that when men avoid the occasions of sin, God
preserves them; but when they expose themselves to danger, they are
justly abandoned by the Lord, and easily fall into some grievous
transgressions.” (St. Alphonsus Liguori, The
True Spouse of Jesus Christ, Mortification of the Eyes, p. 221)

Those people who choose to ignore
this advice despite being told not to do so, infallibly prove the point (i.e.,
the above explanation of why most people are damned due to their perverse, evil
desire and intention of persevering in sin and the proximate occasion of sin).

The great St. Ambrose said concerning this: “True
repentance [and thus love of God] is to cease to sin [all sin, however small].”

Most people just don’t
care about God enough nor fear Him enough to avoid all sin and the occasions
of falling into obvious sin, nor do they love
Him more than they love their own perverse will or self-love—which is the direct reason for their
indifferent lifestyle; neither do they care enough about God so as to
avoid even what they obviously know
will lead them into possible sin.

Hence that most people are damned and always have been. So
the only reason it would be hard for someone to be forgiven his sins and be saved
is if he don’t love God enough, fear God enough, nor trust God enough with his
whole heart—trust and love, such as believing in Him and that
He will forgive you if you do what
you must—and that He hears all your
prayers and grants all your prayers
that are good for you, such as all prayers for the grace of attaining
forgiveness and salvation. Therefore, it is only hard to be saved for the bad —
and not for the good souls.

Concerning the great evil of giving to others a cause
of “scandal”, St. Alphonsus Liguori preached the following words in a sermon to
his congregation:

St.
Alphonsus Liguori, On the Sin of Scandal: “"The wolf catches and
scatters the sheep." (John 10.12) The wolves that catch and scatter the
sheep of Jesus Christ are the authors of scandal, who, not content with their
own destruction, labor to destroy others. But the Lord says: "Woe to that
man by whom the scandal comes." (Matt. 18.7) Woe to him who gives scandal,
and causes others to lose the grace of God. Origen says that "a person
who impels another to sin, sins more grievously than the other." If,
brethren, there be any among you who has given scandal, I will endeavor this
day to convince him of the evil he has done, that he may bewail it and guard
against it for the future. I will show, in the first point, the great
displeasure which the sin of scandal gives to God; and, in the second, the
great punishment which God threatens to inflict on the authors of scandal.

“FirstPoint. On the great displeasure
which the sin of scandal gives to God.

“1. It is, in the first place, necessary to explain
what is meant by scandal. Behold how St. Thomas defines it: "Scandal is a
word or act which gives occasion to the ruin of one’s neighbor." (S.
Theol. 2-2, q. 45, art. 1) Scandal, then, is a word or act by which you are
to your neighbor the cause or occasion of losing his soul [such as by posting
or linking to soul slaying material that will induce others to sin]. It may be
direct or indirect. It is direct when you directly tempt or induce another to
commit sin. It is indirect when, although you foresee that sinful words or
actions will be the cause of sin to another, you do not abstain from them. But
scandal, whether it be direct or indirect, if it be in a matter of great
importance, is always a mortal sin.

“2. Let us now see the great displeasure which the
destruction of a neighbor’s soul gives to God. To understand it, we must
consider how dear every soul is to God. He has created the souls of all men in
his own image. "Let us make man in our image and likeness." (Gen.
1.26) Other creatures God has made by a fiat -- by an act of his will; but the
soul of man he has created by his own breath. "And the Lord breathed into
his face the breath of life." (Gen. 2.7) The soul of your neighbor God has
loved for eternity. "I have loved you with an everlasting love."
(Jer. 31.3) He has, moreover, created every soul to be crowned in Paradise, and
to be a partner in his glory. "That by these you may be made partakers of
the divine nature." (2 Peter 2.4) In heaven he will make the souls of the
saints partakers of his own joy. "Enter into the joy of your Lord."
(Matt. 25.21) To them he shall give himself as their reward. "I am your
reward exceedingly great." (Gen. 15.1)

“3. But nothing can show the value which God sets on
the souls of men more clearly than what the Incarnate Word has done for their
redemption from sin and hell. "If," says St. Eucharius, "you do
not believe your Creator, ask your Redeemer, how precious you are."
Speaking of the care which we ought to have of our brethren, St. Ambrose says:
"The great value of the salvation of a brother is known from the death of
Christ." We judge of the value of everything by the price paid for it by
an intelligent purchaser. Now, Jesus Christ has, according to the Apostle,
purchased the souls of men with his own blood. "You are bought with a
great price." (1 Cor. 6.20) We can, then, say that the soul is of as much
value as the blood of a God. Such, indeed, is the language of St. Hilary.
"Tam copioso munere redemptio agitur, ut homo Deum valere videatur." Hence,
the Savior tells us that whatever good or evil we do to the least of his
brethren, we do to himself. "So long as you did it to one of these my
least brethren, you did it to me." (Matt. 25.40)

“4. From all this we may infer how great is the
displeasure given to God by scandalizing a brother, and destroying his soul. It
is enough to say that they who give scandal rob God of a child, and murder a
soul, for whose salvation he has spent his blood and his life. Hence, St. Leo
calls the authors of scandals murderers. "Quisquis scandalizat, mortem
infert animae proximi." They are the most impious of murderers; because
they kill not the body, but the soul of a brother, and rob Jesus Christ of all
his tears, of his sorrows, and of all that he has done and suffered to gain
that soul. Hence the Apostle says: "Now, when you sin thus against the
brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ." (1
Cor. 8.12) They who scandalize a brother, sin against Christ; because, as
St. Ambrose says, they deprive him of a soul for which he has spent so many
years, and submitted to so many toils and labors. It is related that St.
Albert the Great spent thirty years in making a head, which resembled the human
head, and uttered words: and that St. Thomas, fearing that it was done by the
agency of the devil, took the head and broke it. St. Albert complained of the
act of St. Thomas, saying: "You have broken of mine the work of thirty
years." I do not assert that this is true; but it is certain that, when
Jesus Christ sees a soul destroyed by scandal, he can reprove the author of it,
and say to him: Wicked wretch, what have you done? You have deprived me of this
soul, for which I have labored thirty-three years.

“5. We read in the Scriptures that the sons of Jacob,
after having sold their brother Joseph to certain merchants, told his father
that wild beasts had devoured him. "Fera pessima devoravit eum."
(Gen. 37.20) To convince their father of the truth of what they said, they
dipped the coat of Joseph in the blood of a goat, and presented it to him,
saying: "See whether this be your son’s coat or not" (v. 32). In
reply, the afflicted father said with tears: "It is my son’s coat: an evil
wild beast has eaten him" (v. 33). Thus, we may imagine that, when a soul
is brought into sin by scandal, the devils present to God the garment of that
soul dipped in the blood of the Immaculate Lamb, Jesus Christ -- that is, the
grace lost by that scandalized soul, which Jesus Christ had purchased with his
blood and that they say to the Lord: "See whether this be your son’s coat
or not." If God were capable of shedding tears, he would weep more
bitterly than Jacob did, at the sight of that lost soul -- his murdered child
-- and would say: "It is my son’s coat: an evil wild beast has eaten
him." The Lord will go in search of this wild beast, saying:
"Where is the beast? where is the beast that has devoured my child?"
When he finds the wild beast, what shall he do with him?

“6. "I will," says the Lord by his prophet
Hosea, "meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps." (Hosea
13.8) When the bear comes to her den, and finds not her whelps, she goes about
the wood in search of the person who took them away. When she discovers the
person, oh! with what fury does she rush upon him! It is thus the Lord shall
rush upon the authors of scandal, who have robbed him of his children. Those
who have given scandal will say: My neighbor is already damned; how can I
repair the evil that has been done? The Lord shall answer: Since you have
been the cause of his perdition, you must pay me for the loss of his soul.
"I will require his blood at your hands." (Ezek. 3.20) It is
written in Deuteronomy, "You shall not pity him, but shall require life
for life" (19.21). You have destroyed a soul; you must suffer the loss of
your own. Let us pass to the second point.

“SecondPoint. The great punishment
which God threatens to those who give scandal.

“7. "Woe to that man by whom the scandal
comes." (Matt. 18.7) If the displeasure given to God by scandal be
great, the chastisement which awaits the authors of it must be frightful.
Behold how Jesus Christ speaks of this chastisement: "But he that shall
scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him
that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned
in the depth of the sea." (Matt. 18.6) If a malefactor dies on the
scaffold, he excites the compassion of the spectators, who at least pray for
him, if they cannot deliver him from death. But, were he cast into the depths
of the sea, there would be no one present to pity his fate. A certain author
says that Jesus Christ threatens the person who scandalizes a brother with this
sort of punishment, to signify that he is so hateful to the angels and saints,
that they do not wish to recommend to God the man who has brought a soul to
perdition. "He is declared unworthy not only to be assisted, but even to
be seen." (Mansi. ch. 3, no. 4)

“8. St. John Chrysostom says that scandal is so
abominable in the eyes of God, that though he overlooks very grievous sins, he
cannot allow the sin of scandal to pass without adequate punishment.
"Tam Deo horribile est scandalum, ut peccata graviora dissimulet non autem
peccata ubi frater scandalizatur." God himself says the same by the
prophet Ezekiel: "Every man of the house of Israel, if he... set up the
stumbling block of his iniquity... I will make him an example and a proverb,
and will cut him off from the midst of my people." (Ezek. 14.7, 8) And, in
reality, scandal is one of the sins which we find in the sacred Scriptures
punished by God with the greatest rigor. Of Eli, because he did not correct
his sons, who gave scandal by stealing the flesh offered in sacrifice (for
parents give scandal, not only by giving bad example, but also by not correcting
their children as they ought), the Lord said: "Behold, I do a thing in
Israel: and whosoever shall hear it, both his ears shall tingle." (1 Sam.
3.11) And speaking of the scandal given by the sons of Eli, the inspired writer
says: "Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceedingly great before the
Lord." (Ibid. 2.17) What was this exceedingly great sin? It was, says
St. Gregory, in explaining this passage, drawing others to sin. "Quia
ad pecandum alios pertrahebant." Why was Jeroboam chastised? Because he
scandalized the people: he "has sinned, and made Israel sin." (1
Kings 14.16) In the family of Ahab, all the members of which were the enemies
of God, Jezebel was the most severely chastised. She was thrown down from a
window, and devoured by dogs, so that nothing remained but her "skull, and
the feet, and the extremities of her hands." And why was she so severely
punished? Because "she set Ahab on to every evil."

“9. For the sin of scandal hell was created.
"In the beginning God created heaven and earth." (Gen. 1.1) But, when
did he create hell? It was when Lucifer began to seduce the angels into
rebellion against God. Lest he should continue to pervert those who remained
faithful to God, he was banished from heaven immediately after his sin. Hence
Jesus Christ said to the Pharisees, who by their bad example scandalized the
people, that they were children of the devil, who was from the beginning a
murderer of souls. "You are of your father, the devil: he was a
murderer from the beginning." (John 8.44) And when St. Peter gave scandal
to Jesus Christ, by suggesting to him not to allow his life to be taken away by
the Jews, and thus endeavoring to prevent the accomplishment of redemption, the
Redeemer called him a devil. "Go behind me, Satan; you are a scandal to
me." (Matt. 16.23) And, in reality, what other office do the authors of
scandal perform, than that of a minister of the devil? If he were not assisted
by such impious ministers, he certainly would not succeed in gaining so many
souls. A scandalous companion does more injury than a hundred devils.

“10. On the words of Hezekiah, "Behold, in peace
is my bitterness most bitter" (Isa. 38.17), St. Bernard, in the name of
the Church, says: "Peace from pagans, peace from heretics, but no peace
from children." At present the Church is not persecuted by idolaters, or
by heretics, but she is persecuted by scandalous Christians, who are her
own children. In catching birds, we employ decoys, that is, certain birds that
are blinded, and tied in such manner that they cannot fly away. It is thus the
devil acts. "When," says St. Ephrem, "a soul has been taken, it
becomes a snare to deceive others." After having made a young man fall
into sin, the enemy first blinds him as his own slave, and then makes him his
decoy to deceive others; and to draw them into the net of sin, he not only
impels, but even forces him to deceive others. "The enemy," says
St. Leo, "has many whom he compels to deceive others." (Serm. de
Nativ.)

“11. Miserable wretches! the authors of scandal
must suffer in hell the punishment of all the sins they have made others commit.
Cesarius relates (Bk. 2, ch. 6) that, after the death of a certain person who
had given scandal, a holy man witnessed his judgment and condemnation, and saw
that, at his arrival at the gate of hell, all the souls whom he had
scandalized came to meet him, and said to him: Come, accursed wretch, and atone
for all the sins which you have made us commit [by your deeds and actions, such
as by immodest forum posts, images or links that contained such images etc].
They then rushed in upon him, and like so many wild beasts, began to tear
him in pieces. St. Bernard says that, in speaking of other sinners, the
Scriptures hold out hopes of amendment and pardon; but they speak of those
who give scandal as persons separated from God, of whose salvation there is
very little hope. "Loquitur tanquam a Deo separati, unde hisce nulla
spes vitae esse poterit."

“12. Behold, then, the miserable state of those who
give scandal by their bad example, who utter immodest words before their
companions [or post immodest images or videos, or promotes them, or links to
them], in the presence of young females, and even of innocent children, who, in
consequence of hearing those words [or seeing those images in the news article
or video clip], commit a thousand sins. Considering how the angel-guardians
of those little ones weep at seeing them in the state of sin, and how they
call for vengeance from God against the sacrilegious tongues [and actions] that
have scandalized them. A great chastisement awaits all who ridicule those
who practice virtue. For many, through fear of the contempt and ridicule of
others, abandon virtue, and give themselves up to a wicked life. What shall be
the punishment of those who send messages to induce others to sin? or of those
who boast of their own wicked actions? God! instead of weeping and repenting
for having offended the Lord, they rejoice and glory in their iniquities! Some
advise others to commit sin; others induce them to it; and some, worse than the
devils, teach others how to sin. What shall we say of fathers and mothers, who,
though it is in their power to prevent the sins of their children, allow them
to associate with bad companions, or to frequent certain dangerous houses [or
internet sites, or allow them watching the television or listening to secular
sinful music], and permit their daughters to hold conversations with young men?
Oh! with what scourges shall we see such persons chastised on the day of
judgment!

“13. Perhaps some father of a family among you will
say: Then, I am lost because I have given scandal? Is there no hope of
salvation for me? No: I will not say that you are past hope -- the mercy of God
is great. He has promised pardon to all who repent. But, if you wish to save
your soul, you must repair the scandal you have given. "Let him,"
says Eusebius Emmissenus, "who has destroyed himself by the destruction of
many, redeem himself by the edification of many." (Hom. 10 ad Mon.) You
have lost your soul, and have destroyed the souls of many by your scandals. You
are now bound to repair the evil. As you have until now drawn others to sin,
so you are bound to draw them to virtue by words of edification, by good
example, by avoiding sinful occasions, by frequenting the sacraments, by going
often to the church to pray, and by attending sermons. And from this day
forward avoid, as you would death, every act and word which could scandalize
others. "Let their own ruin," says St. Cyprian, "suffice for
those who have fallen." (Bk. 1, L. 3) And St. Thomas of Villanova says:
"Let your own sins be sufficient for you." What evil has Jesus
Christ done to you that it is not enough for you to have offended him
yourselves, but you wish to make others offend him? This is an excess of
cruelty.

“14. Be careful, then, never again to give the
smallest scandal. And if you wish to save your soul, avoid as much as possible
those who give scandal. These incarnate devils shall be damned; but, if you do
not avoid them, you will bring yourself to perdition. "Woe to the
world because of scandals," says the Lord (Matt. 18.7), that is, many are
lost because they do not fly from occasions of scandal. But you may say: Such a
person is my friend; I am under obligations to him; I expect many favors from
him. But Jesus Christ says: "If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it
out and cast it from you. It is better for you, having one eye, to enter into
life, than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire." (Matt. 18.9) Although
a certain person was your right eye, you must withdraw for ever from her; it is
better for you to lose an eye and save your soul, than to preserve it and be
cast into hell.” (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons (nn. 2-4) taken from Ascetical
Works, Volume XVI: Sermons for all Sundays in the Year (1882) pp. 152-173)

All of this means that it is absolutely
forbidden to post links to many news website/articles by default since they
contain totally immoral and immodest pictures all over the place. Yet many evil
people -- and not infrequently so -- even traditional so-called “Catholics”, on
various forums and websites links to such sites containing such immodesty all
the time (even though they are perfectly aware of that they contain such
immodesty) to the destruction of their own soul (since they must not put
themselves in temptations or enter such sites with images on if they have
images on) and the souls of others (whom gets scandalized) and the offense of
God (whom they grieve by their bad life and example), whom they claim to
worship.

A HERETIC CANNOT BE A VALID POPE

This section contains content used from authors: Brother Peter Dimond and Brother Michael Dimond of Most Holy Family Monastery / mostholyfamilymonastery.com

St. Robert
Bellarmine: “A pope who is a manifest
heretic automatically (per se) ceases
to be pope and head, just as he
ceases automatically to be a Christian and a member of the Church.
Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by the Church. This is the teaching of all the ancient Fathers who teach that
manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction.” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30)

It is a proven fact that Bergoglio (Francis I) is
a non-Catholic heretic. The Catholic Church infallibly teaches that a heretic
cannot be validly elected Pope (see the Bull
Cum ex Apostolatus Officio below), since a heretic is not a member of the
Catholic Church. Jorge Bergoglio therefore is a non-Catholic Antipope whose
election was utterly null and void.

Pope Paul
IV, Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio,
Feb. 15, 1559: “6. In addition, [by this
Our Constitution, which is to remain valid in perpetuity We enact, determine,
decree and define:-] that if ever at any time it shall appear that any
Bishop, even if he be acting as an Archbishop, Patriarch or Primate; or any
Cardinal of the aforesaid Roman Church, or, as has already been mentioned, any
legate, or even the Roman Pontiff, prior to his promotion or his elevation as
Cardinal or Roman Pontiff, has deviated from the Catholic Faith or fallen into
some heresy:

(i) the promotion or elevation, even if it
shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals,
shall be null, void and worthless;

(ii) it
shall not be possible for it to acquire validity (nor for it to be said that it
has thus acquired validity) through the acceptance of the office, of
consecration, of subsequent authority, nor through possession of
administration, nor through the putative enthronement of a Roman Pontiff, or
Veneration, or obedience accorded to such by all, nor through the lapse of any
period of time in the foregoing situation;

(iii) it
shall not be held as partially legitimate in any way…

(vi) those
thus promoted or elevated shall be deprived automatically, and without need for
any further declaration, of all dignity, position, honour, title, authority,
office and power….

10. No one
at all, therefore, may infringe this document of our approbation,
re-introduction, sanction, statute and derogation of wills and decrees, or by
rash presumption contradict it. If anyone, however, should presume to attempt
this, let him know that he is destined to incur the wrath of Almighty God and
of the blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul.

Given in
Rome at Saint Peter’s in the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1559, 15th
February, in the fourth year of our Pontificate.

+ I, Paul,
Bishop of the Catholic Church…”

In the Apocalypse, chapters 17 and 18, there is
predicted that a whore will arise in the last days from the city of seven
hills, which is Rome. This whore will tread upon the blood of the martyrs and
saints. This whore is clearly contrasted with the immaculate bride of Christ,
the Catholic Church. In other words, the whore of Babylon will be a false
church from Rome that will appear in the last days. This Whore of Babylon is
the Vatican II sect, a false bride which arises in Rome in the last days in
order to deceive the Catholic Faithful.

In her
appearance at La Salette, France, Sept. 19, 1846, the Blessed Mother predicted:
“Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Anti-Christ… the Church
will be in eclipse.”

To understand why Francis cannot be the Pope, one
must understand heresy and apostasy. Heresy is the obstinate denial or doubt by
a baptized person of an article of divine and Catholic Faith. In other words, a
baptized person who deliberately
denies an authoritative teaching of the Catholic Church is a heretic. Pope Leo
XIII proclaims this teaching in his encyclical Satis Cognitum.

Pope Leo
XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29,
1896: “The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the
unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who
were wont to hold as outside Catholic
communion, and alien to the
Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine
proposed by her authoritative Magisterium.”

Apostasy, on the other hand, is not merely the
denial or doubt of one or more teachings of the Catholic Church, but a complete
rejection of the Christian Faith altogether. In this article we have shown that Francis is both a heretic and
an apostate.

As the teaching of Pope Leo XIII shows, a heretic
is outside Catholic communion and alien to the Church. The same therefore
goes for apostates, since all apostates are also heretics. The fact that a heretic
is outside the Catholic Church is a defined dogma affirmed by many Popes. A
heretic cannot be inside the Catholic Church, because by denying the faith he
is automatically expelled from Her.

Pope Eugene
IV, Council of Florence, ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church
firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics…”

We see here that Pope Eugene IV defined
infallibly that all heretics are outside the Catholic Church.

Pope
Innocent III, Eius exemplo, Dec. 18,
1208: “By the heart we believe and by the mouth we confess the one Church,not of
heretics, but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside of
which we believe that no one is saved.”

We see in this solemn profession of faith of Pope
Innocent III that the one true Church of Christ cannot include heretics.

In fact, so foreign are heretics to the Catholic
Church that the Catholic Church has actually defined that heretics are the
gates of hell.

Pope
Vigilius, Second Council of
Constantinople, 553: “… we bear in mind what was promised about the holy
Church and Him who said the gates of hell will not prevail against
it(by these we understand the
death-dealing tongues of heretics)…”

Pope St. Leo
IX, Sept. 2, 1053: “The holy Church built upon a rock, that is Christ, and upon
Peter… because by the gates of Hell, that is, by the
disputations of heretics which lead the vain to destruction, it would
never be overcome.”

Thus, it is infallible Catholic truth that a
heretic cannot be a member of the Catholic Church. Many other authorities could
be brought forward to further prove this point, but we will simply quote Pope
Leo XIII again, who summarizes this dogmatic teaching of the Church quite well.

Pope Leo
XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9): “No one
who merely disbelieves in all (these heresies) can for that reason regard
himself as a Catholic or call himself one. For there may be or may arise some
other heresies, which are not set out in this work of ours, and, if any one holds to a single one of these
he is not a Catholic.”

And because a heretic cannot be a Catholic or a
member of the Catholic Church, it is a fact that a heretic cannot be a Pope,
because a Pope is the head of
the Catholic Church.

Pope Pius
IX, First Vatican Council, Sess. IV,
Chap. 3: “… the Pontiff of Rome himself is the successor of the blessed Peter,
the chief of the apostles, and is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church…”

The Pope is the head of the whole Catholic
Church. And we already saw that heretics cannot be members of the Catholic
Church. Therefore, it is infallible that a heretic cannot be a Pope, because a
heretic cannot be the head of that which he is not a member. This is why the
Saints and Doctors of the Church consistently teach that if a Pope were to
become a manifest heretic he would immediately lose the office of Pope.

St.
Antoninus: “In the case in which the pope would become a heretic, he would find
himself, by that fact alone and without any other sentence, separated from the
Church. A head separated from a body cannot, as long as it remains separated,
be head of the same body from which it was cut off. A pope who would be
separated from the Church by heresy, therefore, would by that very fact itself
cease to be head of the Church. He could not be a heretic and remain pope,
because, since he is outside of the Church, he cannot possess the keys of the
Church.”(Summa Theologica, cited in Actes de
Vatican I. V. Frond pub.)

St.
Alphonsus, Bishop and Doctor of the Church: “If ever a Pope, as a private
person, should fall into heresy, he would at once fall from the Pontificate.” (Oeuvres
Complètes. 9:232)

St. Francis
De Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church: “Now when the Pope is explicitly a
heretic, he falls ipso facto from his
dignity and out of the Church…” (The Catholic Controversy, TAN Books,
pp. 305-306)

St. Robert
Bellarmine, Cardinal and Doctor of the Church: “This principle is most certain. The non-Christian cannot in any way be
Pope, as Cajetan himself admits. The reason for this is that he cannot be head
of what he is not a member; now he who is not a Christian is not a member
of the Church, and a manifest heretic is
not a Christian, as is clearly taught by St. Cyprian, St. Athanasius, St.
Augustine, St. Jerome and others; therefore the manifest heretic cannot be
Pope.” (De Romano Pontifice,
II, 30)

The testimonies of these great Catholic saints
show that it is impossible for a heretic to be the head of the Catholic Church,
because he is not a member of Her. This is not to say that a wicked man, who
was not a heretic, could not be Pope. A wicked man who did not deny the faith
could certainly be Pope, as Church history shows; but a heretic who denies the
faith can never be Pope, because heresy places one outside the Church, while
immorality without heresy places one in a state of mortal sin but not outside
the Church.

Pope Pius
XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (# 23),
June 29, 1943: “For not every sin, however grave it may be, is such as of its
own nature to sever a man from the Body
of the Church, as does schism or heresy or apostasy.”

We can see that it’s the teaching of the Catholic
Church that a man is severed from the Church and Salvation by heresy, schism or
apostasy.

Moreover, in judging that Francis is a heretic
and is not the Pope (and is therefore an Antipope), one is not judging the Holy
See; rather, as the teaching already quoted shows, one is correctly identifying
that a manifest heretic is outside the Church and therefore cannot occupy the
Holy See.

In
two of his coronation sermons, Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) — considered one
of the greatest canonists of his time — explained how a pope can “wither away
into heresy” and “not believe” the Faith and that a pope who falls into the sin
of heresy is already “judged.”

Pope Innocent III: “Without faith it is impossible to please
God.’… And so the faith of the Apostolic See never failed, even in the most
trying circumstances [turbatione], but always continued intact and
undiminished, so that the privilege of Peter remained constant and unshaken.
“To this end faith is so necessary for me that, though I have for other sins
God alone as my judge, it is alone for a sin committed against faith that I
may be judged by the Church. [propter solum peccatum quod in fide
commititur possem ab Ecclesia judicari.] For ‘he who does not believe is
already judged’.” (Sermo 2: In Consecratione, PL 218:656)

Pope Innocent III: “You are the salt of the earth… Still
less can the Roman Pontiff boast, for he can be judged by men — or rather he
can be shown to be judged, if he manifestly ‘loses his savor’ in heresy.
[quia potest ab
hominibus judicari, vel potius judicatus ostendi, si videlicet evanescit in
haeresim.] For he who does
not believe is already judged.” (Sermo 4: In Consecratione, PL 218:670)

Another
translation of Sermon 4 reads:

Pope Innocent III: “The Roman Pontiff has no superior but
God. Who, therefore, (should a pope ‘lose his savor’) could cast him out or
trample him under foot—since of the pope it is said ‘gather thy flock into thy
fold’? Truly, he should not flatter himself about his power, nor should he
rashly glory in his honor and high estate, because the less he is judged by
man, the more he is judged by God. Still the less can the Roman Pontiff glory
because he can be judged by men or rather, can be shown to be already
judged, if, for example, he should wither away into heresy; because
“he who does not believe is already judged.” (St. John 3:18) In such a case it
should be said of him: ‘If salt should lose its savor, it is good for nothing
but to be cast out and trampled under foot by men.’” (Sermo 4: In
Consecratione, PL 218:670)

A
pope who commits the sin of heresy, then, can indeed be “shown to be judged.”

St. Robert
Bellarmine: “A pope who is a manifest
heretic automatically (per se) ceases
to be pope and head, just as he ceases automatically to be a Christian and
a member of the Church. Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by the
Church. This is the teaching of all the
ancient Fathers who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all
jurisdiction.” (De Romano Pontifice,
II, 30)

And the truth expressed by these saints, such as
St. Robert Bellarmine, that a heretic cannot be the Pope, is not merely their
fallible opinion, as some defenders of Francis have argued; rather, the
teaching expressed by these saints is a dogmatic fact. It is rooted in the
infallible dogma that heretics cannot be members of the Catholic Church, which
is why Pope Innocent III taught that a Pope is “already judged, if, for
example, he should wither away into heresy.”

Therefore, to hold the position that a heretic
can be the Pope is heretical. So let no defender of Francis tell you that it
does not matter whether or not he is a heretic, or that even if he is a heretic
he can still be the Pope. No, this is not true, as we have proven. If Francis
is the Pope, he cannot be a heretic. He must be a Catholic and a member of the
Catholic Church. But, as we have shown, Francis is definitely neither a
Catholic nor a member of the Catholic Church. Therefore, he absolutely cannot
be its head.

Concluding Points

So the question that everyone professing to be
Catholic must ask himself is this: Is Francis the head of my Church? Or is
Francis part of a different religion?

If Antipope Francis is part of a different
religion, and who would dare deny this, then he cannot be the head of the
Catholic Church.

St. Francis
De Sales, Doctor of the Church: “It
would indeed be one of the strangest monsters that could be seen – if
the head of the Church were not of the
Church.” (The Catholic Controversy, p. 45)

This is why Pope Paul IV solemnly taught in his
Feb. 15, 1559 Bull, cum ex Apostolatus
officio, that it is impossible for a heretic to be validly elected Pope.

Furthermore, there are those who have rightfully
acknowledged that the Vatican II Church is clearly not the Catholic Church, but
they still maintain that Antipope Francis is the Pope. They hold that Antipope
Francis can be a true Pope despite the fact that he is the head of a
non-Catholic Church. To them we must say, in addition to what has been stated
so far, that such a position separates Pope from Church, which is impossible.

Pope Leo
XIII, Jan. 22, 1899: “Where Peter is, there is the Church.”

Therefore, to acknowledge the Vatican II Church
as a false Church requires that one
acknowledge its head, Antipope Francis, as a false Peter. On the other
hand, to acknowledge Antipope Francis as a true Peter requires that one
acknowledge his false Vatican II Church as a true Church.

Pope Leo
XIII, Satis Cognitum (#15) June 29,
1896: “When the divine founder decreed that the Church should be one in faith, in government, and in
communion, He chose Peter and his
successorsas the principle and
center, as it were, of this unity.”

Moreover, to obstinately acknowledge Antipope
Francis as a true Pope requires that you have the same faith as he does, and
are in communion with his Vatican II Church.

Pope Leo
XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 10), June 29,
1896: “For this reason, as the unity of
the faith is of necessity required for the unity of the Church, inasmuch as
it is the body of the faithful, so
also for this same unity, inasmuch as the Church is a divinely constituted
society, unity of government, which effects and involves unity of communion, is
necessary jure divino (by divine
law).”

And this is precisely why this issue is so
important. Because to affirm that a particular person is your Pope, the head of
your Church, means, by divine law, that you share communion and faith with that
person and with his Church.

Pope Gregory
XVI, on the Church and Papacy, May 17, 1835: “… Christ established this
ecclesiastical power for the benefit of unity. And what is this unity unless one person is placed in charge of the
whole Church who protects it and joins all its members in the one profession of
faith…”

Pope Pius
XI, Mortalium Animos (#9), on the unity
of the Church: “… that unity can only arise from one teaching authority, one
law of belief and one faith of
Christians.”

Pope Pius X,
Encyclical, May 26, 1910: “… the Church remains immutable and constant, ‘as the
pillar and foundation of truth,’ in professing
one identical doctrine…”

St. Francis
De Sales, Doctor of the Church: “The
Church is a holy university or general company of men united and collected
together in the profession of one same Christian faith…” (The Catholic
Controversy, p. 161)

But to affirm that you profess the same faith as
Antipope Francis, after seeing the facts that we have presented, is literally
to deny the faith and break communion with the Catholic Church.

So, in order to profess the Catholic Faith whole
and undefiled, and in order to declare that one is not part of a false Church,
one must denounce Francis as a non-Catholic Antipope. A person cannot use the
excuse that he does not have the authority to make this judgment about Antipope
Francis either, because the judgment that a Catholic makes about Antipope
Francis, is the exact same judgment, with the exact same authority, that a
Catholic makes when he professes that he does not belong to the Lutheran,
Calvinist, Presbyterian or Baptist sects; and that he is not in the same Church
as those who deny Catholic teaching.

Catholics distinguish the true Church from the
members of these countless sects, not by a specific declaration from Church
authority about every single one of these people and their sects (which would
be impossible for the Church to give), but rather by their open rejection of Catholic teaching, or by their open membership in
a non-Catholic religious community, or by their open profession of a
non-Catholic Faith. This has always been the way that the true Church has
distinguished itself from heretical sects and the members of the true Church
from the members of heretical sects.

Pope Leo
XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29,
1896: “The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the
unanimous teaching of the Fathers, WHO
WERE WONT TO HOLD AS OUTSIDE CATHOLIC
COMMUNION, AND ALIEN TO THE CHURCH, WHOEVER WOULD RECEDE IN THE
LEAST DEGREE FROM ANY POINT OF DOCTRINE PROPOSED BY HER AUTHORITATIVE
MAGISTERIUM.”

St. Robert
Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, II,
30: “… for men are not bound, or able to read hearts; BUT WHEN THEY SEE THAT SOMEONE IS A HERETIC BY HIS EXTERNAL WORKS, THEY
JUDGE HIM TO BE A HERETIC PURE AND SIMPLE, AND CONDEMN HIM AS A HERETIC.”

Therefore, to say that you don’t feel that you
have the authority to figure out the undeniable fact that Antipope Francis is a
non-Catholic, and the head of a non-Catholic Church, means that you don’t have
the authority to determine that any heretic is a non-Catholic and outside the
Church. This means that you don’t have the authority to distinguish between the
true Church and the countless heretical sects in the world. It means that you
don’t have the authority to distinguish between the true Church and a faceless
blob of baptized heretics.

Therefore, those who assert that Antipope Francis
is the Pope, after seeing the facts that we have presented, are in communion
with a non-Catholic sect, the non-Catholic Church of Antipope Francis. They are
sharing faith with a non-Catholic heretic, Antipope Francis. They are asserting
that a manifest heretic, Antipope Francis, is a member of the Catholic Church,
which is a denial of Catholic dogma. They are asserting that Catholics have no
authority to distinguish the true Church of Christ from a heretical sect or the
members of the true Church of Christ from the members of heretical sects; and
they are asserting that a true Pope can authoritatively promulgate false
doctrines.

The truth, on the other hand, is that Antipope
Francis is not a true successor of Peter; but rather, he is another one of the
more than 40 Antipopes which the Church has had to deal with in her long
history.

The truth is that none of the four men who foisted
upon the world this new Vatican II religion were true successors of Peter, but
Antipope revolutionaries, who tried to impose a new faith, a new Mass and a new
Gospel.

The truth is that God has allowed a counterfeit
Catholic Church to be set up in the times of the great apostasy, in which we
are living. This counterfeit Church attempts to eclipse the true Church of
Christ, which God allows as a punishment for sin in the greatest tribulation
that the world has ever seen.

The truth is that when there is a true Pope he is
the center of unity in the Church; however, it is also true that the Church can
be without a true Pope for a long period of time. This period of time when the
Chair of Peter is vacant occurs every time a Pope dies, and has lasted for as long
as 3 1/2 years in Church history. This period of time when the Church is
without a Pope is called a Papal interregnum, which, according to theologians,
such as the 19th century Fr. Edmund O’Reilly, could easily last longer than 35 years. Thus, there is
nothing incompatible with the promises of Christ to His Church for Him to leave
the Church without a Pope for decades through the worst part of the great
apostasy; in fact, it is in not having a true Pope to guide people through the
great apostasy which makes this apostasy so devastating to so many.

The truth remains that the Catholic Church is the
one Church founded by Christ to which all must belong in order to be saved, and
that this Church still exists in a remnant of Catholics who maintain the infallible
teachings of the true Popes throughout history.

St.
Athanasius: “Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition were reduced to a handful,
they would be the true Church.”

“At one point in the Church’s history, only
a few years before Gregory’s [Nazianz] present preaching (+380 A.D.), perhaps
the number of Catholic bishops in possession of sees, as opposed to Arian
bishops in possession of sees, was no greater than something between 1% and 3%
of the total. Had doctrine been determined by popularity, today we should
all be deniers of Christ and opponents of the Spirit.” (W.A. Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 2,
p. 39.)

If the Arian heresy was so bad that approximately
1% of the jurisdictional bishops remained Catholic and 99% became Arian, and the
Great Apostasy preceding the Second Coming of Christ is predicted to be even
worse – the worst apostasy of all time – then one should not be surprised by
the fact that there are barely or any authentically Catholic priests in the
world today and no fully Catholic jurisdictional (i.e., governing) bishops to
speak of and that an Antipope is reigning from Rome (as predicted by Our Lady
of La Salette) and heading a counterfeit Catholic Church of apostasy, as the
foregoing has so clearly shown.

The truth is that God has not abandoned His
Catholic Church; it remains the immaculate Bride of Christ, and the gates of
hell will never prevail against this Church that Jesus founded upon Peter the
Rock.

Pope
Vigilius, Second Council of
Constantinople, 553: “… we bear in mind what was promised about the holy
Church and Him who said the gates of hell will not prevail against
it(by these we understand the
death-dealing tongues of heretics)…”

Pope
Innocent III, Eius exemplo, Dec. 18,
1208: “By the heart we believe and by the mouth we confess the one Church,not of
heretics, but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside of
which we believe that no one is saved.”

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